where
we've been discussing some MW user issues, but the dicussion was not
focused on corporate per se. We can use the same page or maybe set up a
subpage if you think it will be easier. There is also
. If anyone know of another
appropriate place, please share.
I would be glad to see such a space set up and discussion going on and
would be happy to assist with that.
Mariya
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Sorry about that - Gmail reload glitch
On 02/06/2013 10:00 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
For
corporate adoption, the main thing MediaWiki needs is not some
> particular feature. It needs to be supported. It needs an organisation
> with people who will care if corporate users are screwed over by a
> change. It needs community management, so that the features needed by
> corporate users will be discoverable and well-maintained, rather than
> developed privately, over and over. And it needs the smallest nudge of
> promotion, on top of what Wikipedia fans are doing for it. Say, a
> nice-looking website aimed at this user base.
I was on the other side of this, albeit a while back. We had to decide
between MediaWiki and Confluence to power Disney's ParentPedia (which has
since been abandoned):
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/13/disney_eisner/
http://family.go.com/parenting/
The main reasons we chose Confluence:
* An easier to understand API. This seems to not be a problem any more:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code
* Easier setup on Windows:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows,
possibly
made easier now by Bitnami:
http://bitnami.org/stack/mediawiki
Do we have a place where people can talk through problems with corporate
adoption? I suspect Tim's correct about the general case but that focusing
on specifics would drive adoption.
Dan
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